Humanity
Good Luck
I was twenty-one years old when my dad died. It was sudden—unexpected—and it gutted me like a saber slicing through my liver. Mom cried—no, she sobbed—and I doubt those pained screams of horror, begging for the news to not be true, will ever leave my memory. My knees gave out and the asphalt bit into my skin, granting me scars that would never surmount to the scar left on my heart. The hiccupped heaves clawed their way out of my mother’s throat, her voice unidentifiable as each cry pierced my spirit—my very being—as if a javelin had been thrust into my lungs. He was just here—what went wrong?
By Kai Jeffreys3 years ago in Confessions
Stripped Down and Built Back Better. Top Story - August 2022.
For the longest time I assumed that the fabled biological clock just skipped right over me, but a few years back - mere months before the pandemic struck, when the world was still 'normal' - I was standing in our empty guest room and it suddenly hit me that we could totally put a baby in that room. It would be a great nursery.
By Apple Dainty3 years ago in Confessions
Realism of Life . Top Story - August 2022.
Life is a matter of the living and the dead. Those who are still kicking and those who have kicked the bucket. Life boils down to money and how much of it you have. When it comes down to the actual core of things, no one really cares about you. It’s about what you can bring to the table. If you don’t have anything you can render, you’re useless to others. Society stresses the importance of money and what it can buy. You can’t do anything without it. And if you don’t have it, you’re as good as dead.
By BigSteff SA3 years ago in Confessions
My story
Lately, I've been focusing my attention on how to be more successful and have more money in my pockets. I've spent hours and hours on Youtube trying to find inspiration and I did find it. The only problem was that I couldn't get myself to actually start. Why do you ask? My fears and insecurities took over because I didn't want to fail or lose money or time in the process. This is ironic because being stagnant made me lose both money and time. I thought that the best thing to do was to know everything before starting. Again, ironic because it is almost impossible to know everything before starting something. Mistakes are the best ways to learn and you shouldn't try to avoid doing mistakes. Well, it turned out I always had a new question that popped in my head, so it was a never-ending cycle that was leading me to nothing. To this day I still have over a thousand videos about various topics in the "Watch Later" section of Youtube, so clearly, I could have decided to let my fears take control of my life for many more years. While I'm happy about what I learned, I started to notice the pattern and started to get annoyed by my lack of action. While I still recommend Youtube for any basic knowledge about a topic, say investing or starting a business, at some point, you need to start moving in some direction, otherwise, you may stay stuck for a while the way I did.
By Chloé Lebel3 years ago in Confessions
Syria is the future of Ukraine?
Many elements of similarity were noted between the Syrian and Ukrainian issues, including that the strategies of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both military and political, are almost identical to the strategies practiced by the Russian forces on Syrian soil since the Russian intervention in 2015 until now.
By Abd elrhmen3 years ago in Confessions
Dating in the 2020's
Dating. The pasttime that we love to hate. It is stressful, confusing, and expensive. I'm not even sure why we do it. I'm currently single and not looking and I've never been happier in my life. Take that into consideration when reading this.
By Susan Eileen 3 years ago in Confessions
The King of Nightmares
You were just a child, a person like me. Stupid and clueless with a world for you to be free. I was in hiding while you were experiencing, bad and good you explored a world that became your FREE; DOMinating others with your strength and ignorance, your confidence has built while you grew distant from me. Separate from life, you played house, I became caretaker while the word “husband” was in your mouth. Never been loved while you experienced it pure, still, we were apart, while you experienced love more. Spent most of my 20s away from wedding bells, while I struggled for money and saved a mother from hell.
By The Kind Quill3 years ago in Confessions
Fighting is not over
Today I feel tired. But not physically tired, but the kind of tired you feel when you try so many things, put hope into, but nothing comes out. You have patience, that your efforts will pay off, you keep showing up for work day in, day out, but after months of work, the results are still shy to come out.
By Estera Lupu3 years ago in Confessions
My Other Name Was Jerry, When I Was 10 Years Old
In my culture, it is common to have another name. My Ojibwe name is an abbreviated version of Red-tailed fox running in the stars or Waagosh Bimibatood indishinakaz, (In Ojibwe — I am/my name is Running Fox) which I received before I was 10 years old.
By Denise E Lindquist3 years ago in Confessions
